Jim Zervanos

To learn more about Jim Zervanos, visit jimzervanos.com.

Biography

Jim Zervanos is the author of the memoir That Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story and the novel LOVE Park. His award-winning essays and short stories have been published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. He is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and Bucknell University, where he won the William Bucknell Prize for English and was an Academic All-American baseball player. He teaches at a high school in the suburbs of Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife and two sons and has risen in the baseball pantheon as coach of two Little League teams.

Writer’s Studio

Writer’s Choice—Crafting the Truth in Nonfiction and/or Fiction

An extraordinary life experience might seem destined to become a work of nonfiction—just tell what happened, right?—but principles of fiction can guide our choices about what’s essential in our true stories. In the same way, our fiction can be infused with the kind of artful introspection we might otherwise reserve for the memoirist. A broad appreciation for craft—in both nonfiction and fiction—can turn obstacle into opportunity, self-examination into revelation. This class will be led by a fiction writer who never expected to write a memoir, let alone two memoirs—the crafting of which was guided by principles of fiction—and whose fiction is now guided by principles of nonfiction.

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